I mean, you said yourself "so many people". That's who cares. You're actually making it sound like you're the odd one out for pretending not to.
And it's pretty obvious that they're not bothered by a digital storefront; they're bothered by that digital storefront bribing companies into not selling their products elsewhere.
The bottom line is that people are angry because Epic is not disrupting the market, they are distorting it.
If the Epic games store was a better storefront than Steam, then people would naturally gravitate towards it. That's how the free market is supposed to work. You create a better product than your competition, and consumers will reward you for it.
But that's just not happening. There's really nothing special about the Epic games store itself that makes people think "I want to buy my games through Epic because they deliver a better experience". Instead, Epic is just using their deep pockets to essentially say "buy it here or don't buy it at all". In those circumstances it doesn't matter if their storefront is garbage, because it's the only option available.
Build a better storefront than Steam, and people will start finding less and less reason to object to the Epic games store. Keep throwing your money around in order to distort the market and force people to use your platform, and people will continue to treat you as villians.
There's one last point that I think is kind've interesting. I've seen comments about how "Steam is letting Epic walk all over them", and it's an interesting question. There's a lot of venom being spewed against Epic for buying up exclusives, and thus far Steam has not responded in kind. That's the thing though, let's say hypothetically Steam does start buying exclusives. Would it be hypocritical to defend Steam for doing it? Or is it the case that Steam is just punching back? Personally I approve of the fact that they aren't responding in kind, but the longer this continues, the more understandable it would be if they decide to.
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